> Dennis wrote: The Met says about the first of 
these: Mozart's D-minor piano concerto, K. 466, requires the use of a pedal 
mechanism as it cannot be performed with the range of the manual alone.
Does anyone know what passages this refers to precisely? How do modern 
pianists handle them? Thanks.

I quote from the Eulenburg editions preface by Paul Badura Skoda, p. IV:

"An important passage in the first movement ... bb88-99 are not playable on
one piano alone without a very disturbing break in the phrasing. These low
bass notes which appear in the autograph, but curiously in none of the
editions, can simply be explained by the fact that Mozart disposed of a
pedal piano at the concerts he played early in 1785."

IMHO there is an error: it means bb88-90 (not 99), where there are three low
D's and two low AA's that are unplayable without a pedal, as the left hand
is playing chords in the middle of the keyboard. Modern recordings usually
omit these low-and-slow notes which, quite obviously, can be played by
anybody helping with page turning.

CDV

http://harps.braybaroque.ie/


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